U+256D BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT ARC DOWN AND RIGHT

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Decimal / Nº
9581
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+256D, officially named BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT ARC DOWN AND RIGHT, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Box Drawing block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as FORMS LIGHT ARC DOWN AND RIGHT.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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9581 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 95 AD Copied!
UTF-16 25 6D Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 25 6D Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%95%AD Copied!
HTML hex reference ╭ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'256D' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u256D Copied!
C and C++ \u256d Copied!
C# \u256d Copied!
CSS \00256D Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9581) Copied!
Go \u256d Copied!
JavaScript \u256D Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{256d} Copied!
JSON \u256D Copied!
Java \u256D Copied!
Lua \u{256D} Copied!
Matlab char(9581) Copied!
Perl \x{256D} Copied!
PHP \u{256d} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\256D' Copied!
PowerShell `u{256D} Copied!
Python \u256d Copied!
Ruby \u{256d} Copied!
Rust \u{256d} Copied!